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This paper is concerned with the derivation of necessary conditions for the optimal shape of a design problem governed by a non-smooth PDE. The main particularity thereof is the lack of differentiability of the nonlinearity in the state…

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In this article we introduce a Partial Differential Equation (PDE) for the rank one convex envelope. Rank one convex envelopes arise in non-convex vector valued variational problems \cite{BallElasticity, kohn1986optimal1, BallJames87,…

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The numerical solution of high dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) is severely constrained by the curse of dimensionality (CoD), rendering classical grid--based methods impractical beyond a few dimensions. In recent years,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Wenzhong Zhang , Zheyuan Hu , Wei Cai , George EM Karniadakis

We introduce a generic numerical schemes for fully nonlinear parabolic PDEs on the full domain, where the nonlinearity is convex on the Hessian of the solution. The main idea behind this paper is reduction of a fully nonlinear problem to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Hung Duong , Arash Fahim

In this paper we extend the results of the seminal work Barles and Souganidis \cite{BS} to path dependent case. Based on the viscosity theory of path dependent PDEs, developed by Ekren, Keller, Touzi and Zhang \cite{EKTZ} and Ekren, Touzi…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Jianfeng Zhang , Jia Zhuo

We propose a reformulation of the convergence theorem of monotone numerical schemes introduced by Zhang and Zhuo for viscosity solutions of path-dependent PDEs, which extends the seminal work of Barles and Souganidis on the viscosity…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Zhenjie Ren , Xiaolu Tan

We establish a Large Deviations Principle for stochastic processes with Lipschitz continuous oblique reflections on regular domains. The rate functional is given as the value function of a control problem and is proved to be good. The proof…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Magdalena Kobylanski

We prove the existence of a unique viscosity solution to certain systems of fully nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations with interconnected obstacles in the setting of Neumann boundary conditions. The method of proof builds on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Niklas L. P. Lundström , Marcus Olofsson

We study a general class of nonlinear second-order variational inequalities with interconnected bilateral obstacles, related to a multiple modes switching game. Under rather weak assumptions, using systems of penalized unilateral backward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene , Marie Amelie Morlais

We propose a monotone approximation scheme for a class of fully nonlinear PDEs called G-equations. Such equations arise often in the characterization of G-distributed random variables in a sublinear expectation space. The proposed scheme is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Shuo Huang , Gechun Liang

We present here some results for the PDE related to the logHeston model. We present different regularity results and prove a verification theorem that shows that the solution produced via the Feynman-Kac theorem is the unique viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Edoardo Lombardo

Partial Differential Equation (PDE)-constrained optimization problems often take the form of an optimization of an objective function given as a sum of loss terms. Each function or gradient evaluation requires one or more PDE solves, which…

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This paper deals with the problem of existence and uniqueness of a solution for a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE for short) with one reflecting barrier in the case when the terminal value, the generator and the obstacle…

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In this work we consider solutions to stochastic partial differential equations with transport noise, which are known to converge, in a suitable scaling limit, to solution of the corresponding deterministic PDE with an additional viscosity…

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We consider the optimal control of occupied processes which record all positions of the state process. Dynamic programming yields nonlinear equations on the space of positive measures. We develop the viscosity theory for this infinite…

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In this paper, we are concerned with the averaging problem for a class of forward-backward stochastic differential equations with reflection driven by G-Brownian motion (reflected G-FBSDEs), which corresponds to the singular perturbation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Mengyao Hou

We establish the equivalence between weak and viscosity solutions for non-homogeneous $p(x)$-Laplace equations with a right-hand side term depending on the spatial variable, the unknown, and its gradient. We employ inf- and sup-convolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 María Medina , Pablo Ochoa

By extending to the stochastic setting the classical vanishing viscosity approach we prove the existence of suitably weak solutions of a class of nonlinear stochastic evolution equation of rate-independent type. Approximate solutions are…

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The present work is focused on exploring convergence of Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINNs) when applied to a specific class of second-order fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). It is well-known that as the number of…

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